July 18, 2003

We're Happy. Really.

By MARGARET MARQUIS and BRENT SHANNON

Between the two of us (husband and wife), we have been in college and graduate school for 20 years and have five degrees in English. What our seven parents -- four divorces, six remarriages (Don't be distressed if the math doesn't add up. We're afraid it doesn't) -- can't understand is how we've been studying for two decades and still no employer thinks us qualified for a tenure-track job. And we would take a single job between us for now, being young, married, idealistic, and